danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton) (07/28/88)
Although this program makes it easier, it's not really necessary: In article <3500@bsu-cs.UUCP>, bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes: > > commands would be done as: > WILDCARD FIND -"string" *.c > and: > WILDCARD FIND -"string" file1 file2 file3 You could write: for %i in ( *.c ) do find "string" %i or for %i in ( file1 file2 file3 ) do find "string" %i If it's in a batch file you'd need to change the "%i" to "%%i", like this: for %%i in (*.c) do find "string" %%i -- Any opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. nortond@microsof.beaver.washington.EDU nortond%microsof@uw-beaver.ARPA {decvax,decwrl,sco,sun,trsvax,uunet,uw-beaver}!microsof!nortond
toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) (07/29/88)
The functionality of this program is already available in the (MS/PC)-DOS FOR command. As an example: FOR %i IN (*.TXT) DO FIND "string" %i Admittedly, this syntax isn't as nice as the submitted program's, but at least DOS will do what the author wanted. Tom Almy toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM